Blue Iris - Storage Configuration vs Hardware NVR

[BigE123]

I have decommissioned my 10 year old Q-See NVR (8816) in favor of a TrendNet POE+ Surveillance switch and Blue Iris v6+ running on a PC. The goal being to take advantage of the Blue Iris v6+ built in A.I. vetting of motion alerts for Humans and vehicles to get rid of false motion alerts. The old Q-See NVR would fill one drive (3TB) then switch to the second drive (4TB) and repeat this indefinitely overwriting the 3TB drive when the 4TB was full.

The NVR surveillance hard drives are now in the PC running Blue Iris. I am wondering if Blue Iris has a way to configure the storage to fill the drives as the NVR used to overwriting the other once full?

 

[wittaj]

It is best to split your cameras over the two drives and to split the cameras such that if one drive goes out, you still have some coverage of a side of the house with the other drive.

For example if you have 8 cameras with 2 on each side of the house, put once camera from each side on one drive and the other camera from each side on the other.

It is not recommended to use the move to STORED feature for drives in the same box as it unnecessarily moves files around and uses CPU% and wears the drives out faster.

 

[BigE123]

It is best to split your cameras over the two drives and to split the cameras such that if one drive goes out, you still have some coverage of a side of the house with the other drive.

For example if you have 8 cameras with 2 on each side of the house, put once camera from each side on one drive and the other camera from each side on the other.

It is not recommended to use the move to STORED feature for drives in the same box as it unnecessarily moves files around and uses CPU% and wears the drives out faster.

Thank you for the fast response! That doesn't seem ideal for what I am trying to replicate from the hardware NVR functionality. I definitely didn't want them up and spinning at the same time. That would seem to me to wear them out faster. The 3TB is original. the 4TB was added years later.

 

[Flintstone61]

"seem " being the key word. They'll be fine spinning 24/7. esp. if they are Western Digital. or Hitachi. in my experience. drives are cheap. performance is the goal. let em run. I've been building and running pc's 24/7 for 20+ yrs.
drive failures have been Maxtor, and Seagate in my little world of experience. they all can fail. sometimes you get lucky with a Seagate sometimes no. Recommended here to run Windows and Blue iris on a SSD.
Leave the job of writes and reads to the big Drives.